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The controller is a love letter to people who played the game in arcades first. It would be like a street fighter game being bundled with an arcade stick. And I would get the bundle with the controller, amiibo card and game if it is released in the land down under. I'm not gonna pay extra to have a copy imported from UK.

Don't forget shin megami tensei X fire emblem is slated for 2016 release. It will probably arrive at a convenient time between big releases. It looks like it will be one of those games that gets released too late in the system's life but gets appreciated by collectors later on.

Ya see this is why Nintendo really needs to consolidate portable console and home console into a unified platform. For both 3DS and WiiU there are a lot of games coming out but not everybody has both and wii U owners in particular must be feeling the rough end of the stick due to third parties having abandoned it for the most part. But if the 3DS owners were able to enjoy games like Mario Kart 8 and Wii U owners were able to play games like Stella Glow on there then game droughts would be less of an issue.

Having watched the video I wouldn't be surprised if the creator of One Piece Eichiro Oda played this game when it came out. There are some similarities to the premise of one Piece like it being named after a great treasure left behind by a legendary pirate and with the protagonist being a kid wearing a similar looking hat who advances by making friends/allies by helping people out. This game was released two years before one Piece began in Japan so it's not impossible that it could have been a small influence.

This is great news. And thanks to Nintendolifes recommendation I will totally go and hunt down a retron 5 and a physical copy of this particular super famicom game and apply the patch in a 100% legal way rather than just download an emulator and rom because that is 100% illegal, free and so much more convenient which is precisely why I will only go about in the legal way

Hahaha I guess it's Bae-onetta for Alex. And good for him and everyone else who voted for Bayonetta. I'm sure the dejected Goku voters would have liked a detailed explanation why the much loved Dragon Ball character couldn't be a smash bros character Even though there have never been characters added to smash that weren't primarily video game characters.
And I imagine the rights to use a character around the world could be complicated by existing deals with different companies in various countries outside of Japan. Compared to getting the rights from Platinum Games who are already Nintendo's homies.

Hahaha I guess it's Bae-onetta for Alex. And good for him and everyone else who voted for Bayonetta. I'm sure the dejected Goku voters would have liked a detailed explanation why the much loved Dragon Ball character couldn't be a smash bros character Even though there have never been characters added to smash that weren't primarily video game characters.
And I imagine the rights to use a character around the world could be complicated by existing deals with different companies in various countries outside of Japan. Compared to getting the rights from Platinum Games who are already Nintendo's homies.

I'm hoping for a limited edition game + controller bunderu to get released in the PAL territories.

So it's still up in the air as to whether Cloud is the player's choice ballot character or if it's a yet to be revealed character. It would be smart of NIntendo to save an update for as yet unannounced characters for after the the direct. They'd be well aware of data miners by now so taking a simple precaution like that to prevent spoilers would seem logical to me.

I get it now, I think I know why Nintendo has patented so many ideas in such a short amount of time. It's a double layered to protect their ideas for NX. First of all they're making use of the patent system to protect what they've conceived but on top of that they've patented several things and as many have already said they can't incorporate all of this into NX, and I'm starting to think that is the point. These days competitors like Sony, M$ and Apple can work around patented ideas once they know what the hook is that appeals or may appeal. Just look at the wii, once M$ and sony were forced to accept that motion controls were a big selling they decided to introduce their own spin on motion controls. However playstation move and kinect used camera based systems to achieve motion sensing game controls because Nintendo had already patented their controller so sony and microsoft couldn't just copy and paste the idea as they have with other controller ideas that NIntendo introduced that have now become standard (shoulder buttons, analogue thumbstick, rumble feedback, diamond layout for face buttons, etc.) It is worth noting that apple have also introduced a new controller for their apple TV platform that bears a striking resemblance to the wii remote in both appearance and function.

So with these patents that have been observed and discussed I reckon it's either a jigsaw puzzle that only Nintendo knows how it will fit together to form a cohesive concept or it is a case of shell game where one or maybe two of these patents is actually representative of what will make NX unique and possibly a hit with the market while the rest are just decoys.

I get it now, I think I know why Nintendo has patented so many ideas in such a short amount of time. It's a double layered to protect their ideas for NX. First of all they're making use of the patent system to protect what they've conceived but on top of that they've patented several things and as many have already said they can't incorporate all of this into NX, and I'm starting to think that is the point. These days competitors like Sony, M$ and Apple can work around patented ideas once they know what the hook is that appeals or may appeal. Just look at the wii, once M$ and sony were forced to accept that motion controls were a big selling they decided to introduce their own spin on motion controls. However playstation move and kinect used camera based systems to achieve motion sensing game controls because Nintendo had already patented their controller so sony and microsoft couldn't just copy and paste the idea as they have with other controller ideas that NIntendo introduced that have now become standard (shoulder buttons, analogue thumbstick, rumble feedback, diamond layout for face buttons, etc.) It is worth noting that apple have also introduced a new controller for their apple TV platform that bears a striking resemblance to the wii remote in both appearance and function.

So with these patents that have been observed and discussed I reckon it's either a jigsaw puzzle that only Nintendo knows how it will fit together to form a cohesive concept or it is a case of shell game where one or maybe two of these patents is actually representative of what will make NX unique and possibly a hit with the market while the rest are just decoys.

It's very sad how the wii brand has fallen out of favour with consumers at large. It started out so well and between 2006 and 2009 it was golden. I think I know why 2009 was a turning point. But I am curious to see what NIntendo show at E3 next year, it will show what they've taken away from their experiences with the wii U/3DS era. I want to see portable and home based game playing devices to be part of a shared platform. I want to see Nintendo win back third party support on their own terms (unlike sony and m$)

Yeah I've got a copy of MK7 and while I appreciate it for what it is it can't hold a candle to MK8. So I am more than happy that MK8 got all the DLC because I play the hell out of that game, MK7 not so much but it is nice to have a good mario kart game for when I'm on the go and have time to play a game or two.

yahaha I always find awards shows a bit tedious to watch on tv even the oscars and the grammys I find tiresome to watch in their entirety so I appreciate a concise round up of the academy awards of video games so that I don't have to fast forward while watching it to get to the good bits. and well done to Nintendo for winning the awards they did during what appears to have been a tough transitional period.

Xenoblade does seem set to become a major global franchise for Nintendo. Ninty have really got behind this game and have marketed it quite a lot and it looks like that investment is paying off. I imagine Monolith would be up there with Retro Studios as one of Nintendo's most expensive studios to run and maintain but as long as they put out amazing games that sell well enough then they'll have earned their keep.

I still find it incredible that the reason why this game is only on wii U is because a group of square soft employees many of whom worked on xenogears were unhappy with how Square was so FF focused that the games that they were passionate about were put on the back burner. And lets not forget that because Nintendo under Iwata-san's leadership were able to reconnect with Bandai Namco and re-establish positive relations, which led to them offering Monolith to Nintendo when they needed to divest themselves of that studio. It's as if Nintendo has a little piece of squaresoft for themselves.

Even though Nintendo has been extremely tightlipped and would never comment on this patent, I just have this feeling looking at the diagrams that THIS is what NX will be, or at least a rough outline that is vague enough to not give away too much detail should a competitor catch wind of it but specific enough to make it harder for Micro$ony to "borrow" the idea should it prove to be a hit with consumers.

That supplemental computing device tho WTF is it? Is it NX portable or maybe a PC. A PC could be a cheap way for NIntendo to boost graphics performance but they're really vulnerable when connected to the internet and would be an easy in for hardware hackers and modders.

I think that the way that free to start will really shine for me is when I have an assortment of F2S games on various platforms that I can cycle between while I wait for content to regen on each platform. I'll put real money into a game that is fun but also fair. There's no way I'm going to want to spend more than the cost of a regular game in micro transactions. I'd rather just maximise the amount of free content I can get out of them and pay for micro transactions for the very few times that it feels fair and justified.

It's fair enough that Monolith had to make some compromises due to wii U not being a state of the art PC but it looks like the sacrifices they had to make result in a more enjoyable game compared to one that was overly focussed on graphics and realism. It's all well and nice to complain about hardware power and tech specs but even the most powerful hardware available has limitations. With creativity and resourcefulness a studio can work around these limitations to create a game that is fun to play first and foremost.

Looks ok until you get to the face. Why did Mr Hefley feel the need to give Link the face of a goblin?

It's good to see Okamoto-san back on the winners list after Flagship collapsed under the weight of massive debt. For someone who played a significant role in the development of Street Fighter Zero 3 he deserved better than to run a start up into the ground.

Looks like Mikey B just got himself a nice little feature for his showreel. This will surely help him to get his foot in the door to secure work as a 3D artist.

Ah who could forget EA's hollow wii U promises. What a scumbag company they are. They made a business decision when they realized that their strategy of releasing lazy ports (for the most part) on wii U wasn't the road to easy riches they had hoped it would be. That's fine, there aren't that many EA games that I really care about and the few that I do enjoy playing I can get pirated versions for on PS3 or PC - as that is just a business decision of my own but it is also my justice. Not that EA will notice there are enough PS4 owners buying their annualised games to keep EA and their share holders living in the lap of luxury for years to come so nobody loses and everyone wins.

And just for the record I do think NX can do just fine without EA and their crap. As long as they can win back the support of their Japanese banner men. The support of companies like Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Tecmo Koei and Capcom could give NX the kind of diverse software library that the 3DS currently enjoys which the wii U can only dream of.

well I'm happy for Nintendo and their recent court wins. However I'll still continue to pirate playstation games because paying for them and Nintendo games would stretch my budget too far but if I pay for Nintendo games and pirate playstation games then my wallet wont break. Also it feels nicer to not financially reward the bannermen who betrayed Nintnedo by taking their games to PS1 over N64 which allowed Sony to leverage what made the SNES successful and use it against Nintendo - as a lifelong Nintendo fan I feel these actions are justified even if they're not exactly legal.

if that special edition with the gold amiibo had been announced for my neck of the woods I'd pre order it straight away. Oh well I guess we in the PAL territories can't have it all.

If they'd announced it for PAL territories I'd have pre ordered that limited edition Oh well I guess I'll have to make do with all the other goodies that got announced for our region.

I doubt Sakurai san would have read that and thought "holy smokes, I need to seriously consider each and every point written down here !!!" - He's just about done with Sm4sh bros, he's been working on that game since the wii U launched and any notion that he's going to direct the next installment of smash bros is far from guaranteed.

Never the less we can count out the modding scene to consider implementing some of these suggestions in a future fan mod of smash bros for wii U.

I've often wondered why Nintendo can't just do just one english release that covers US, UK and Aus/NZ? I understand that american english isn't the same as English english but who here would be terribly offended if they just used the american english version if it meant getting the game at the same time as the other english speaking regions? I know I wouldn't mind given that american english is so pervasive in pop culture anyway. I'm not saying give Nintendo's UK and Australian subsidiaries the axe but if they don't have to translate then they can focus their resources on marketing and distribution and leave the other translations to the other european branches that do actually speak languages other than english.

If NX turns out to be the portable console X home console all in wonder that many hope it will be then I hope that Nintendo will also extend that unified approach to things like putting an end to region locking, better social media integration into miiverse, and more cohesion between regional branches. It's not much use to have people in one territory hyping up a game to people in another territory when they're unable to play it.

It just seems strange to me how some high profile games get cohesive release dates like smash bros and Mario Kart 8 did. while lower profile games like Yoshi's woolly world and Kirby and the rainbow curse get these arbitrarily staggered release dates

It's gotten lukewarm reviews and I guess Nintendo don't see much potential in chibi robo for future games to give zip-lash the sort of backing that Splatoon got. It's sad but as much as I'd like to get the amiibo bundle I might just hold off in the hope I can get it cheap at an EB sale sometime soon.

"I guess we'll react to that when we know more"

I guess the translation of that is "we'll copy any ideas we deem worth stealing once we know exactly what NX is"

I also wish the amiibo costumes gave some sort of attack when you press B. It just seems strange that there are all these characters that can be scanned in, many of which are already carrying a weapon just by virtue of their design and yet that weapon is just there for show as it can not be used to ward off the many enemies that people put into the courses they design. Seems like something that would be perfect to throw into the next update.

I don't mind them aging up the female characters a bit but making them cover up is completely unacceptable. The human form can be beautiful and NoA should trust their audience to be able to appreciate the human form without it being overly distracting. As for project zero they should have kept the wildly inappropriate, unlockable, sexy lingerie in the western release as well as the zero suit samus and zelda cosplay. We in the west demand titillation and equality !!!!

haters often complain that Nintendo doesn't come up with enough new IP (they do come up with new IP each generation) so a new IP from Retro would seem well timed especially if it is planned for release on NX.

As an aside, that line in the article that Retro is one of Nintendo's priciest studios to maintain brought into clear focus for me that Retro has done a great job at filling the role that Rare used to play. In fact I would dare to say that Nintendo got the better end of the deal that saw Rare become a first party developer for microsoft. With the money they made selling off their stake in Rare Ninty has set up a great studio that has put out great games while MS spent hundreds of millions on the name Rare and it's IP. The talented people who made the games that gave Rare the clout that it once had have long since left, even the stamper bros who founded Rare have walked away.

this new account system sounds very promising. I also hope the points earned from playing games are retro active as I've racked up a lot of hours playing Mario Kart 8 and I'd love to get a big infusion of point from that.

Somehow I expected it to be something with heaps of micro transactions. Still seems kinda strange to offer an app where mii's created by people on their smart devices have conversations that reveal personal info that people might not talk about.

Although if it's free then at least there's not much to lose financially. And if it's an app that lets people get things off their chest without having to actually talk about it that could be kinda useful in some situations like if a mii that I created was able to say "hey Roni, I kinda feel bad that when I qualified for the champions league under your sister's banner I was inadequately prepared and had a shameful champions league campaign that was below my standards. And it was nearly enough to besmirch the stellar league campaign that got me in the champions league in the first place "

as soon as I read they intend for it to be multi platform my first thought was "Oh so they'll port it to every 7th and 8th gen console except wii U" we all know what third parties are like when it comes to multiplat games.

That was just evil for the localisation team to take out those sexy lingerie outfits. A more acceptable course of action would have been to have both the lingerie and the zelda and zero suit outfits in the western release.

I luv that there was a time when VCR's were extremely popular, it seems so quaint now.

Im just glad that the coming together of home and portable console will be more than just a portable device that has an HDMI port - which would be a mess of compromises.

A separate portable console that is part of the NX platform that can work as a controller sounds pretty flippin cool. I'm starting to picture the NX portable as being something that can easily fit into a pocket like a smart phone except that I'm picturing it as having buttons and sticks set into the touchscreen as per the sharp free form screens. a sleek, slim, touch screen form factor would be cool as it could support silicone covers/cases that could all manner of prong handles to make it feel like a "normal controller".

I kinda agree with reviewtech ossan's assertion that NX home version if it is being spec'd in the PS4/xbone league of hardware specs would be better served by being released in 2016 rather than '17. They might as well not leave it too late in this current generation to launch hardware that directly takes aim at their rivals. All indications suggest microsony wont drag this generation out the way they did their seventh gen consoles thus if NIntendo waits too long it could be deja vu where they release similar spec hardware at a point when their rivals are hyping up their next generation hardware. Still way too early to accurately guess how this will all play out.

well at the very least nobody can say that NIntendo's venture into mobile games is half assed. I mean they've entered into development partnerships with companies that have strong credentials in the mobile games market. Ninty have even bought a stake in these companies.

Back in the early ninties it's debatable how well the super NES CD would have done given that the extra expense would have given CD quality audio and some FMV cutscenes. For load times that aren't horrendous it would have needed a 4 speed CD drive and some decent ram would have been needed but that would have been really pricey for a home console peripheral back in the nineties.

Having said all that better audio does make for a richer experience and I would love to see square enix do a rerelease that gives this sort of enhanced experience. No need to 3D up the graphics unless it would have the 2D pixel art on the bottom screen like DQ XI on 3DS.

If this game comes out on 3DS and it's good I'll definitely get it. I only learned about the show a couple of years ago thanks to YT but it's the kind of show I would have loved as a kid during the golden age of saturday morning cartoons.

lets not kid ourselves here Nintendo are going to release Pikmin 4 on NX it's really more of a question of will it be solely for NX or NX + wii U (which to me seems unlikely)

Can't wait. Gonna drop into the big dubya tomorrow, gonna grab a SMM amiibo bundle for $69 and play the hell out of it when I get home.

Nah Miyamoto is just too polite to confirm that Peach gave birth to bowser Jr. I've read enough exotic comics to know how that song goes. I think the real question is, is peach also the mother of the koopalings?

I know it's kinda dark for something as light hearted as SMB but in the first SMB Bowser had Peach in his clutches long enough to be doing hentai things to her. For all we know she may have laid a clutch of eggs before Mario could save her. And assuming the first 3 mario games are in chronological order and are part of a continuous timeline then during the events of SM2 the koopalings could have been raised by Bowser taking time off to do the single dad thing and once he was happy with their tyranting skills he gave them castles to rule in different areas to keep Mario busy and to give him more quality time with Peach each time he kidnaps her.

"He also goes on to state that the figure will be manufactured in the same factory that produces figures for Disney Infinity - a direct competitor of the amiibo range."

As if that concerns Nintendo. Nintendo just seem to care that quality is maintained to make sure their amiibo brand isn't tarnished by a substandard product. Yacht club have to pay the manufacturer so it's only fair that they select the manufacturer that suits their needs/budget.

All the same It's interesting that an Indie dev became the first to license amiibo tech. Perhaps if Nintendo's banner men hadn't betrayed them during the playstation era there would be amiibo based on square, capcom or konami franchises being the first third party amiibo. Ah well.

I'd rather Retro studios make the next big Metroid game.

While senor Pranger may have broke the rules of his employment terminating his employment seems a little harsh given that he didn't leak anything about NX and the stuff that he shared on that podcast are things that fans would like to know.

Fun Fact an iron maiden is also the name of a torture device - the more you know

It's amazing how some folks have over reacted to the NX "reveal". I use that term loosely because the only thing that was really revealed was the codename. And even before we knew it's official codename Nintendo had already mentioned that they were developing ideas for new hardware. In some ways it could prove to be a brilliant move because instead of people saying that Nintendo is giving up on the console market and "going mobile" now people are wondering what will NX be. Although so little is known about NX right now that most people are fearing that it will repeat the wii U's limitations but if Nintendo can get more positive rumblings from third parties that would likely bring about a turn around in people's negative expectations. That DQ XI quasi-announcement certainly got people talking. If Nintendo can get more of that happening and then for that to materialise into games and ongoing support then, hey sky's the limit.

All these limited edition games to pre order, My wallet, I don't know if she can take the strain.